Thursday, February 6, 2014

Where do you meet Jesus each day?

By Mallory Hoffman

Good Shepherd Icon of Bessarabia
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Starbucks? Mass? The Park? On a Walk? At the Adoration Chapel?

We each need a place, a physical place, to meet Him. As Catholics, we
should meet Him and see Him in everything we do and in every word we
say, thus we are evangelists, and we serve Him. Yet, even Jesus went up
to the mountain or to a quiet place to pray to the Father.

I have a special place where I meet Jesus daily. Yes, I go to Mass
daily, except, like today, when I couldn't get out of my drive way
because of yesterday's storm, but it's not there that I meet Jesus in
"Our Place." I am an adorer at Church when Jesus gazes at His children
from the Monstrance, but that's not where I meet Jesus.

The place I meet Jesus daily is in my living room, on the love seat,
across from the couch that my dog occupies. I meet Jesus in this spot
everyday. Even if I'm sick, I seem to find my way down to this love
seat. It's here that I open my heart to have a conversation with Jesus,
our brother and Savior.